Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Activism
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I have even seen writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.
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We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.
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A satyagrahi is born to be deceived.
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Satyagraha is a sovereign remedy.
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When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.
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The end of satyagraha campaign can be described as worthy only when it leaves the satyagrahis stronger and more spirited then they are in the beginning.
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A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform.
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A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.
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Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.
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There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.
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With this salt I am shaking the foundations of the empire.
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A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.